printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 198: Directed Readings in Public Policy
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Brest, P. (PI)
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Chen, L. (PI)
;
Cogan, J. (PI)
;
Dauber, M. (PI)
;
Frisby, T. (PI)
;
Hennessey, K. (PI)
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Jamieson, A. (PI)
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Klausner, M. (PI)
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Miller, G. (PI)
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Nation, J. (PI)
;
Slayton, R. (PI)
PUBLPOL 199: Senior Research
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
PUBLPOL 200B: Senior Practicum
Small student teams conduct policy analyses requested by government and nonprofit organizations. With guidance from the instructor and client organization, each team researches a real-world problem and devises implementable policy recommendations to help address it. The project culminates in a professional report and presentation to the client organization. Prerequisites: core courses in Public Policy or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Sprague, M. (PI)
PUBLPOL 204: Economic Policy Analysis (ECON 150, PUBLPOL 104)
The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions, methods of policy evaluation and the role of benefit-cost analysis, economic models of politics and their application to policy making, and the relationship of income distribution to policy choice. Theoretical foundations of policy making and analysis, and applications to program adoption and implementation. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
ECON 102B.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Cogan, J. (PI)
;
Rosston, G. (PI)
PUBLPOL 206: Law and Economics (ECON 154, PUBLPOL 106)
Law as a tool for correcting market and cognitive failures. Design and consequences of laws, given alternative policy objectives. Welfarist approach to legal policy; deontological perspectives including Kant, Mill, and Rawls. Economic efficiency and agent rationality, effects of law on expectations and incentives, balancing costs of type I and type II legal errors. Empirical studies of law's effects. Applications: property, tort, contract, antitrust, discrimination, crime, legal procedure. Examples chiefly from U.S. law, but analytical tools of general applicability. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Owen, B. (PI)
PUBLPOL 231: Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy (HRP 391)
(SAME AS
LAW 348,
MGTECON 331) Provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the U.S. Potential topics include: health reform, health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance, the uninsured), medical malpractice and quality regulation, pharmaceuticals, the corporate practice of medicine, regulation of fraud and abuse, and international comparisons.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bundorf, M. (PI)
;
Kessler, D. (PI)
PUBLPOL 268: Global Organizations: Managing Diversity (PUBLPOL 168, SOC 168, SOC 268)
Analytical tools derived from the social sciences to analyze global organizations and projects, and applied to the tradeoffs between different designs of teams and organizations. Focus is on tribal mentality and how to design effective organizations and projects for policy implementation within and across institutional settings. This class is associated with a study trip during the Spring Break. Recommended:
PUBLPOL 102, MS&E 180,
SOC 160,
ECON 149, or
MGTECON 330.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Meyersson Milgrom, E. (PI)
PUBLPOL 294: Technology Policy (PUBLPOL 194)
How the U.S. federal government promotes, uses, and regulates new technologies; tensions between representative governance and the need for elite expertise in policymaking; contemporary debates over international security, energy, health, information technology, and economic competitiveness. Recommended:
POLISCI 2.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Slayton, R. (PI)
PUBLPOL 298: Directed Readings in Public Policy
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Ardoin, N. (PI)
;
Bonica, A. (PI)
;
Boyd, S. (PI)
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Instructors:
Ardoin, N. (PI)
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Bonica, A. (PI)
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Boyd, S. (PI)
;
Brest, P. (PI)
;
Bundorf, M. (PI)
;
Chen, L. (PI)
;
Cogan, J. (PI)
;
Frisby, T. (PI)
;
Gould, A. (PI)
;
Higgins, M. (PI)
;
Hilton, S. (PI)
;
Koudijs, P. (PI)
;
Lewis, C. (PI)
;
Miller, G. (PI)
;
Nation, J. (PI)
;
Petersilia, J. (PI)
;
Slayton, R. (PI)
;
Sprague, M. (PI)
;
Stoner, K. (PI)
;
Weyant, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 302B: Economic Analysis of Law
(Same as
LAW 528 .) This course will provide a broad overview of the scholarly field known as "law and economics." The focus will be on how legal rules and institutions can correct market failures. We will discuss the economic function of contracts and, when contracts fail or are not feasible, the role of legal remedies to resolve disputes. We will also discuss at some length the choice between encouraging private parties to initiate legal actions to correct externalities and governmental actors, such as regulatory authorities. Extensive attention will be given to the economics of litigation, and to how private incentives to bring lawsuits differs from the social value of litigation. The economic motive to commit crimes, and the optimal governmental response to crime, will be studied in depth. Specific topics within the preceding broad themes include: the Coase Theorem; the tradeoff between the certainty and severity of punishment; the choice between ex ante and ex post sanctions; negligence versus strict liability; property rules; remedies for breach of contract; and the American rule versus the English rule for allocating litigation costs. Because this course is taught jointly with
Law 528 in the Law School, it will not be mathematically oriented; there are no prerequisites to take the course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Polinsky, A. (PI)
;
Dagenais, G. (TA)
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